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Map: Gaddafi’s hometown of Sirte, where he was reportedly captured and killed by NTC forces
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Graphic: Gaddafi forces prepare for Tripoli battle
Army units, militiamen and foreign mercenaries loyal to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi are fortifying key positions in Tripoli, with tanks guarding major roads in an attempt to stem a revolt that is moving closer to the Libyan leader’s bastion in the capital.
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Gaddafi clings to power as battles rage across Libya
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Oil continued to surge today on Middle East tensions that threatened to push prices into the danger zone for the global economy.
Terry Glavin: Sorry Libya, we’re busy
In September, 2005, when the United States of America pleaded for Canada’s help in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, we did not respond this way: “Again, you know, this ultimately and fundamentally an issue between, you know, the American government, its leader, and the American people.” Instead, within days, three Canadian warships and a Coast Guard vessel, loaded with relief supplies and carrying 1,000 Canadian Forces members, set sail for New Orleans. From the beginning, Libyans have been pleading for help.
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Libya’s Gaddafi blames bin Laden for turmoil
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, who has lost control of large parts of the country following violent clashes, offered his condolences over those who died and called them “Libya’s children.” Gaddafi, speaking on Libyan television on Thursday, said people were fighting among each other and were taking hallucinogenic drugs.
Gaddafi addressed the people of Az-Zawiyah, a town west of the capital, where there was fierce fighting between his forces and rebels, accusing them of being linked to Osama bin Laden. (Reports via Reuters & AFP; Photo: AFP/Getty Images)
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Rebels tighten grip on Libya as western cities fall
Tribal system holds balance of power in Libya
U.S. has little to gain from intervention in Libya
A man fires his gun into the air as people celebrate on an army armoured vehicle in the eastern Libyan town of Shahat, February 24, 2011. (Goran Tomasevic/Reuters)
U.S. has little to gain from intervention in Libya
Matt Gurney: It is highly unlikely that any of Libya’s neighbours, many facing possible unrest of their own, would welcome Western forces deployed to help topple Muammar Gaddafi, even as the situation in Libya deteriorates.
Graphic: The battle for Libya
Rebels tighten grip on Libya as western cities fall
Muammar Gaddafi was struggling to hold on to power in Libya on Thursday as rebels extended their territory by seizing important towns close to the capital
Tribal system holds balance of power in Libya
Powerful military elites ultimately decided the outcome of Egypt and Tunisia’s revolutions, but in Libya the much more opaque and complex tribal power structures could decide how events play out.
A handout picture obtained from OneDayOnEarth.org shows Libyans preparing graves for a mass burial of alleged victims of the ongoing anti-government protests in the Libyan capital Tripoli on February 22, 2011. (OneDayOnEarth.org/AFP/Getty Images)
Editorial: UN Human Rights Council predictably silent on Libya
Planes, ships headed to Libya to evacuate foreigners
More than a quarter of Libyan oil output shut down
Libya’s unrest pushes up oil prices
Libya, although only a small part of the world’s oil production, is a major supplier to many European nations and holds the largest proven reserves in Africa.
Oil supply crisis lurks in Libya
Libya is the first major oil producer whose regime is at risk from the uprisings sweeping the Middle East and North Africa. If Libya falls, anyone of the major oil producers could be next. Already, there has been unrest in Yemen and Bahrain, where civic protests continued Tuesday, and calls for change in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Oman.
“The world could deal with the loss of Libyan barrels, but the worry is that it won’t stop at Libya,” Bill O’Grady, chief market strategist at Confluence Investment Management in St. Louis, told Bloomberg News. “We don’t know where this is going to end.”
